Bacchus

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.2 Bacchus

  God of wine and ecstatic conquest; his subjugation of the East, riding a tiger-drawn car from the Ganges, is the model for Cupid's triumph.

• The Loves §1.3 the vine's discoverer

  Bacchus, who first gave men the vine; named among the poet's divine patrons.

• The Loves §3.8 Liber

  Liber is the Roman name of Bacchus, here among the deified mortals who won heaven.

• The Loves §3.15 Lyaeus

  Lyaeus is a cult-name of Bacchus; his 'heavier thyrsus' summons the poet from elegy to a graver genre.

• The Art of Love §1.7 Bacchus

  God of wine, who conquered India as a youth: another model of early greatness.

• The Art of Love §2.19 Aonian god

  Bacchus, the Aonian (Boeotian/Theban) god; his horned frenzy seizes the jealous woman like a maddened Bacchant.

• The Art of Love §3.31 wine of Lyaeus

  Bacchus (Lyaeus, 'the looser'); the guard's vigilance is washed away with wine.

• The Heroides §2 haltered tigers

  Bacchus, who rescued the abandoned Ariadne and rides a car drawn by tigers; the 'better husband' she gained.

• The Heroides §4 Bacchus

  God of wine and ecstasy, whose frenzies seize his female votaries, the Bacchantes.

• The Heroides §6 of Bacchus' stock

  Bacchus, god of wine, grandfather of Hypsipyle through her father Thoas; her boast of divine descent.

• The Heroides §6 Bacchus

  God of wine, Hypsipyle's grandfather; his constellated bride attests her noble line.

• The Heroides §10 the Ogygian god

  Bacchus, called Ogygian from Thebes (Ogyges), whose Bacchantes rave in his ecstasy.

• The Heroides §13 the Two-horned One

  Bacchus, the horned god, whose maddened votaries Laodamia resembles in her grief.

• The Heroides §15 Bacchus

  God of wine, whose horns Phaon would wear to seem a god.

• The Heroides §18 Liber

  Bacchus (Liber), who loved Ariadne and crowned the heavens with her Corona.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.9 unshorn Bacchus

  Bacchus, the ever-youthful (unshorn) god of wine, to whom a goat is offered when the new vintage flows.

• The Festivals §5.2 Bacchus

  God of wine and ecstasy; here, by metonymy, the wine itself, and the lover of flowers (Ariadne's crown).

• The Festivals §6.11 Stimula

  An Italian goddess (linked with Semele) whose grove on the Aventine the maenads haunted.

• The Festivals §9 Bacchus

  Wine-god; the goat that gnaws the vine is sacrificed to him, wine poured on its horns.

• The Festivals §9 Lyaeus

  Lyaeus ('the Loosener'), a title of Bacchus.

• Metamorphoses §3.49 the infant

  Bacchus (Dionysus), god of wine and ecstatic rites, snatched from the burning Semele and carried to term in Jupiter's thigh — hence 'twice-born.'

• Metamorphoses §3.60 a divine power in that body

  Bacchus in disguise as a beautiful boy, whose godhead Acoetes alone senses.

• Metamorphoses §4.65 Bromius

  The poet heaps up the cult-titles of Bacchus — Bromius ('roarer'), Lyaeus ('looser'), Nyseus, Thyoneus, Lenaeus, Nyctelius, Eleleus, Iacchus, Euhan — the 'many names' he bears among the Greeks.

• Metamorphoses §8.197 Bacchus

  Bacchus (Liber), who found the deserted Ariadne and set her crown among the stars.

• Metamorphoses §8.202 Lyaeus

  Bacchus, here called Lyaeus ('the looser'), to whom Oeneus offered wine.

• Metamorphoses §12.380 the gift of Bacchus

  God of wine ('the gift of Bacchus'), resumed after Nestor's tale.

• Metamorphoses §13.415 liquid Bacchus

  Bacchus, god of wine; 'liquid Bacchus' = wine.

• Metamorphoses §15.475 avenging Bacchus

  God of the vine; the goat is sacrificed to him for gnawing the vines.

• Metamorphoses §15.492 grape-clustered Bacchus

  God of the vine, to whom India yielded its lynxes.

• The Cure for Love §18 Edonian Bacchus

  The wine-god, worshipped with biennial mountain revels by the Edonians, a Thracian people.

• The Cure for Love §25 Bacchus's gift

  Wine, the gift of Bacchus, which kindles desire in moderation but deadens it in excess.

• Sorrows §1.7 Bacchic garlands

  Bacchus, god of wine and poetic inspiration, whose ivy crowns 'happy poets' — unsuited to Ovid's grief.